1997/12/22 by Dimitri Polyakov, Polyakov, Dimitri
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9712209
16 pages, TeX
arxiv created 1997/12/22 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a string-theoretic ansatz describing the dynamics of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories in the limit of large N in D=4. The construction uses in a crucial way open-string vertex operators that describe non-perturbative brane dynamics. According to our proposal, various gauge theories are described by string theories with the same action, but with different measures in the functional integral. The choice of measure defines the gauge group, as well as the effective space-time dimension of the resulting gauge theory.